Station Eleven (9pm, Sky Atlantic)
A great – and somehow hopeful – apocalyptic drama, which deserved more love when it first streamed in 2022. (Perhaps the story of a pandemic wiping out 99% of the world was too close to home.) It’s set across two timelines, with young actor Kirsten (Matilda Lawler) being looked after by writer Jeevan (Himesh Patel) when the killer flu strikes; 20 years later (now played by Mackenzie Davis) she tours with the Travelling Symphony.
Prog Rock at the Proms (7pm, BBC Four)
It was probably only a matter of time before this once scorned but now largely rehabilitated rock subgenre got its Albert Hall moment. Stuart Maconie presents a selection of musically complex epics, with music by Genesis, Jethro Tull, Mike Oldfield and Emerson, Lake and Palmer.
Abbey Clancy: Celebrity Homes (7.30pm, ITV1)
One of those things we all take for granted in life is the ease of furnishing a modern subterranean home. So thank goodness for this profile of influencer Lorna Luxe’s abode, where she’s able to reveal its challenges. Clancy also visits an off-grid farmhouse owned by Jo Wood.
Granite Harbour (8pm, BBC One)
The Aberdeen-set cop drama returns for a third outing. Fashion-forward duo DC Lindo and DS Bartlett investigate the death of a young woman on a country estate that hosts a Traveller community. Monarch of the Glen star Alastair Mackenzie is well cast as the local laird terribly concerned by it all.
Boris Johnson: Into Ukraine’s Kill Zone (9pm, Channel 5)
Our erstwhile prime minister travels beyond Kyiv to witness the realities of modern war at close range and explore the human cost of Ukraine’s desperate battle. Embedded with Ukrainian soldiers, he visits shattered villages, a frontline chapel, drone bases and a makeshift bomb factory.
Ann Droid (9.30pm, BBC One)
Diane Morgan has found her perfect role as hilariously vacant, deeply unhelpful support robot Linda in this sitcom. Sue (Sue Johnson) offers to work in the charity shop for a day but thanks to the interventions of her automaton pal, nothing is simple.
Film choice: The Dink (Apple TV)
There is plenty of comic potential to be found in has-been sports pros still living off former glories. In Josh Greenbaum’s amiable comedy, that figure is Dusty “the Hammer” Boyd (New Girl’s Jake Johnson), a tennis prodigy who failed to make the grade and is now reduced to coaching nine-year-olds at his father’s country club. Dad Chuck (a wonderfully dismissive Ed Harris) is fighting a rearguard action against tennis’s increasingly popular offshoot pickleball – “the coronavirus of sport” – and his son is desperate to please him. But when Dusty checks out the new game, he meets sparky older woman Candace (Mary Steenburgen, delightful) and his priorities change.
Preschool (Paramount+)
Michael Socha is becoming a very accomplished comic actor, and his trademark deadpan desperation is well used in Josh Duhamel’s amusing caper about stupidly competitive dads. Brian (Socha) and Alan (Duhamel) just want the best for their children – but when there is only one place up for grabs at an exclusive private preschool, they will do anything to beat the other man. Antonia Thomas and Charity Wakefield play their more sensible other halves, reduced to spectators in a game of class-tinged male one-upmanship involving indoor skydiving, judo, padel violence and more.
Janet Planet (11.05pm, BBC Two)
Friendless 11-year-old Lacy (Zoe Ziegler) has just demanded to come back from summer camp early. So for the rest of the holidays her world revolves round her acupuncturist single mother Janet (Julianne Nicholson). Pulitzer-winning playwright Annie Baker’s languid drama offers a child’s-eye view of adult relationships, with Lacy party to situations involving her mum she only partly comprehends or cares about – from Janet’s troubles with boyfriend Wayne (Will Patton) to the visit of Sophie Okonedo’s sort-of-cult escaper Regina.
Live sport: Commonwealth Games (8.30am, TNT Sports 2)
Day one from Glasgow, featuring swimming and para swimming, boxing, para powerlifting and artistic gymnastics. Scotland’s Duncan Scott will be aiming for another medal in the 200m individual medley.
